The legacy of White Town/Your Woman

Most interesting thing about Jyoti's original is not the narrative perspective, but rather the cultural response to iti it got macho rugby boys singing "I could never be your woman" to each other.

― exploding angel vagina (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 9 January 2010 15:57 (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is one of the most staggeringly banal and useless received wisdoms of all time btw.

ikr? rugby boys a) sing anything b) the camper the better

xp oh yeah sure no doubt i've been at the wrong end of a cheap grabby sample hundreds of times (and i've been wrong about being at the wrong end too) but this particular example with the wiley cut so evidently, basically has its own different things going on that i'm just a bit gobsmacked. it seems like no one's even listened to the thing once, let alone expended an iota of the deep thought they claim have done on the white town original.

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2014/02/white-town-your-woman/

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2017/12/12/white-town-release-woman-1917/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QVIjNquTJU

The original is perfect as it is - it was great to see someone flying the synthpop flag in the '90s and not being embarrassed about it.

Is it "Your Woman" being used in the advert for The Eternals? Sort of hoping it is (so Jyoti gets a big cheque) but suspect it's just the same sample??

It's in a Dua Lipa song, right?

To answer the question just above: yes. Meantime, Todd in the Shadows does a One Hit Wonderland on it and mentions Tom Ewing along the way, thus tying back to the protohistory of this site, etc. etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRYO6-gNGzQ